Spring! …or something
Posted in Life in NZ on 11/22/2009 07:34 pm by TamIn Maori lore, the Pipiwharauroa, or Shining Cuckoo, is a harbinger of Spring. Technically, it’s almost summer, but the weather has been dodgy enough that it’s hard to tell for sure without looking at the calendar. Just to reinforce the point, here is the cuckoo that concussed itself against our sunroom window the other night:
It’s kinda hard to tell from the photo, but the gray-brownish parts have a coppery sheen in the right light, and the back is iridescent green. We shut the sliding doors so the cats wouldn’t go mess with it, and after about a half an hour it got itself collected enough to fly away.